University of Mississippi

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Updated August 29th, 2014 by College Atlas

The University of Mississippi, often referred to as “Ole Miss”, is a publicly funded and operated, co-ed, research university located in the college town of Oxford, Mississippi. In addition to its main campus in Oxford, the University has satellite campuses (four in total) located in the cities of Southhaven, Booneville, Tupelo, and Grenada. Ole Miss is also home to the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), the health sciences campus located in Jackson and the only academic health science center in Mississippi.

Ole Miss is one of only a handful of space-grant and sea-grant higher education institutions in the United States. About two-thirds of students who attend Ole Miss are from the state of Mississippi. The remaining one-third come from across the United States and over 74 foreign countries. With a total annual enrollment of roughly 22,000 students, Ole Miss is the largest university in the state. 17,000 of the school’s students attend its main campus in Oxford, and roughly 4,000 attend one of its other four branch campuses. The University has a pretty diverse student population.

Academics

Between the university’s five campuses, Ole Miss employs nearly 3,300 full-time employees. Ole Miss is the largest employer in the region and contributes quite a bit to the local economy. Eight of ten faculty at Ole Miss have either a doctoral degree or terminal degree in their academic field of expertise. The student-to-faculty ratio at Ole Miss is about 18:1–not bad for such a large school–and most classes have 20 students or less.

Ole Miss offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in many academic fields and disciplines. Some of the more popular fields of study at Ole Miss include Elementary Education and Teaching; Finance; Marketing/Marketing Management; Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences; and Business Administration and Management. Over 80% of freshmen return to Ole Miss after their first year at the University.

Academic Schools and Colleges

Academic schools and colleges at Ole Miss, located at the university’s main campus in Oxford, and responsible for granting undergraduate and graduate degrees.

College of Liberal Arts

Graduate School

School of Applied Sciences

School of Accountancy

School of Business Administration

School of Engineering

School of Education

School of Pharmacy

School of Law

School of Journalism and New Media

Ole Miss also has several academic colleges that operate through the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson. These include the following:

School of Dentistry

School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences

School of Nursing (with a division also at the Oxford campus)

School of Health Related Professions

School of Medicine

UMMC is the only medical education center in Mississippi. It is also a world-renowned research institution. It is where the world’s first human lung transplant surgery was performed. In 1964, researchers at UMMC also performed the first heart transplant from an animal (chimpanzee) to a human. Other research projects addressed at the center include freshwater ecosystems and medical marijuana. In fact, the center runs the only legal medical marijuana farm in the nation.

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